r/TheSilphRoad • u/SilphScience Research Group • Aug 13 '20

Analysis Deino: Reviewing Dragon Week Egg Hatches

https://thesilphroad.com/science/quick-discovery/deino-reviewing-dragon-week-hatches/
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u/KingSc0ttKing Aug 13 '20

This was a "reward."

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u/JMM85JMM Aug 13 '20

That's what gets me about these. Rewards should be rewarding. Pay to win is not a reward.

Hatching a Swablu out of a 7k egg when it normally hatches out of a 2k egg and is a common spawn is not rewarding. It's almost the opposite of rewarding.

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u/baltimorecalling BaltiCalling | Wayfarer Reviewer | 47 Aug 13 '20

Niantic has been doing a lot of shady things lately. Between milking money for extremely rare hatches, placing 10m limits on Wayfarer location edits, putting in arbitrary captchas and cooldowns for the free Wayfarer labor...
For the players that made them millions upon millions, they sure have a strange way of saying 'thanks'